AQA Project Website“AQA Project” is a team formed by students learning aesthetics and art history at the School of Letters, Kyushu University. Their interests lie in various facets of art museum administration such as exhibition, research, education, publicity, out-reaching and promotion, through on-site practice and fieldwork; and through this process we aim to make active commitment to society. .

Phone

092-642-2372

Academic Degree

Bachelor of Art

Country of degree conferring institution (Overseas)

No

Field of Specialization

Art History

Total Priod of education and research career in the foreign country

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Outline Activities

Based on the research and field work I conducted for years as a curator, I intend to further explore a diversity of issues on Asian modern art. The aim is also to nurture a cooperative relationship with museums in pursuing academic research, education, and community involvements.

Research

Research Interests

Gauguinism in Asian Artkeyword : Gauguin, Asia, Art2017.04～2020.03.

Studies for Practical Use of Art Resources in Universitykeyword : Art Exhibition University Museum Collection2015.04～2018.03.

The Formation of Art History in Southeast Asiakeyword : Asia Art Art History2014.04～2016.03.

Reconstruction of the concept of "Bijyutsu (Art)" in Japan －The Comprehensive Study Encompassing Vocabulary and Theory－

keyword : Art, Art History2013.09～2016.03.

The Transformation of Art as a Social System in Contemporary Visual Culture/ Art keyword : Asia Art 2011.04～2014.03.

Studies for Practical Use of Art Resources in Universitykeyword : Art Exhibition University Museum Collection2011.04～2014.03.

Localcolor and Identity in Asian Modern Artkeyword : localcolor identity Modern Art in Asia National Art Competition2011.04～2014.03.

In 17th-century Europe, the concept of fine art or jyunsui-bijyutsu was established by excluding manufactured goods or crafts. On the contrary, the artistic skill called “Gei” as craftsmanship continued to keep a position as the ability that was important even to the nobles for a long time in the East. This was due to the fundamentally different structures that the East respected spirituality whereas Europe pursued realistic expression in art works. These two worlds had not been interfered with each other, but at last they encountered in modern times. Especially in Japan, since craft works, as seen in tea ceremony, took an important role as a “tool" to support the idea of spiritual world which tea masters were trying to suggest, Japanese people thought that these craft works naturally possessed metaphysical value. Because of this, when they learned a newly arrived concept of "art," it was reasonable that they regarded these craft works which display their spiritual world as "art" works. However, these craft works were excluded from "art" by art experts coming to Japan and at overseas exhibitions, and it emerged that Japan confronted with this situation.

Localcolor and Identity in Asian Modern Art

The History and Transmission of Japanese Traditional Arts and Crafts in the Kyoto Area, Organaizer: INAGA Shigemi, International Research Center for Japanese Studies, 2003-

USHIROSHOJI Masahiro"Vietnamese Painters' Journey to Japan in 1943" at the Symposium "Foreign Land and Home Country－Undercurrents and Turbulence in East Asian Art History, 1920-40" in Graduate Institute of Art History of National Taiwan University..